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.DECLINE
• Long absence of Huavna Capac from Cuzco
• War of succession between 2 of his sons:
Huascar and Atahuallpa
• Population dying from European diseases
(smallpox)
• Arrival of the Spaniards (Pizarro) with better
weapons and war tactics
The Spaniards take over Cuzco on November
16.

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.THE LIFE CYCLE
• Birth and childhood: Tough conditions to
make tough individuals.
• Kinship and marriage: Monogamy for
commoners. polygamy for nobles.
• Old ages: Less hard physical work until no
work expected. High mortality rate.
• Puberty rites: 14 for boys. 1st menstruations for
girls. Permanent name given.

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. no shops or market
• Sapa Inca owned everything and gave the
people what they needed to live
• No trade with surrounding empires
• Economy based on agriculture and
herding (foodstuffs.ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
• No money.

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• Land was divided in 3 parts:
– state religion
– emperor
– sustenance for local population
• Nobles owned private estate and people to
work on them and didn’t pay taxes.ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
• Taxes: human labor (crops. textile.
• Most productive land in Cuzco seized forever
by the emperor. army.
mining. etc.